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Treatment Free Beekeeping Henry J. Svec
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Turning a 50 acre cash crop farm back to a wildflower bee sanctuary and business. Join me as I explain each week what we are doing and why we are bee "helpers" and not bee keepers. The name change on February 25, 2024, is reflected in the science that for me makes most sense. The goal is to listen to all aspects of beekeeping and to be an open and honest place for everyone to share their experience. The focus for our work and research continues to be on the conversion of the 50 acre farm back to nature and the re-wilding of lands in Nova Scotia. Treatment Free best describes what we are doing. Best to make that clear despite the usual backlash. Bee well.
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5 Queen Cells on One Frame This Works
The 2 frame nuc idea for queen rearing was an initial hit. It is a hybrid walkaway technique I guess, where I placed one frame of eggs and brood in a 2 frame nuc with some food. Seven days later I was able to create 3 hives from these frames. Here's what happened.
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What Does Pollen Coming in Tell you About Hive Health
If pollen is coming into your hive does that mean your hive is healthy? Maybe yes maybe no. Here is the discussion.
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Queen Castle and 2 Frame Nucs
Looking at trying the Queen Castle for the first time and with following boards creating 2 frame nucs. First time trying this, but hoping it will reduce the workload and increase the success rate in doing July splits.
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July 6 Hive Updates
After a few delays I was able to get out and have a look at the hives. Here is the report for July 6.
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Summer Split Experiment
Can the 2 frame Nuc help our bees create better queen cells? I discuss upcoming research on trying to see if there is a way to use the 2 frame nucs to improve the quality of the walkaway split.
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Survivor Hive Update
I didn't think these two hives would survive with just a handful of bees coming out of winter. What a pleasant surprise and perhaps some traits we need to see in our survivor hives.